What are the minimum requirements for the Steam client?
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As long as you have a pc built within the last 10-15 years it should run it. The client itself doesn't really have any specific requirements other than a working windows/linux install. As for slowing down the pc, well it uses a bit of ram when it's active but if you have 16gb of ram or more it won't affect much of anything. You could also just close it when you're not using the client and that problem is solved.
Posting your system specs might get you a better answer.
Generally the best way to run anything is to only load what you are using so disable things like steam epic spotify even office from loading at logon. Honestly I literally only have my one drive loading at startup because i use it for all my files going between pcs and thats it and its because i use it everytime im on the pc. Steam i might use 1 in 5 times so its just a waste to run it the other 4.
some people have signatures disabled, you also don't seem to have a signature at all when i go into an incognito window without adblock
if you run windows 7/8 you have less than a month to update to at least 10 or you just won't be able to use steam, if you also have too little ram, you can't use steam, it currently has a memory leak and uses up to 5gb ram (for me)
but generally steam sorta runs on anything, less so nowadays with the recent UI update making it very performance heavy, but there's settings for it to use less bandwidth and be a bit less heavy, i have it installed on a system that has an ancient extremely low end intel atom from 2009 and it runs okay
Jesus, that's horrendous. Haven't had that problem with the Linux client, thankfully. It doesn't even show up in my top RAM consumer list.
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> $ top -b -o +%MEM | head -n 22
top - 16:17:34 up 1 day, 18:59, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.68, 0.73
Tasks: 451 total, 1 running, 448 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.1 us, 0.7 sy, 1.5 ni, 95.6 id, 0.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.4 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 31946.5 total, 10764.9 free, 10192.9 used, 10988.8 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 20479.5 total, 19588.7 free, 890.8 used. 18511.7 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1060 clamav 32 12 1591948 1.3g 8064 S 0.0 4.1 0:30.28 clamd
4890 joom 17 -3 5524712 1.1g 139272 S 0.0 3.7 103:51.83 gnome-shell
12180 joom 20 0 1532596 870552 106544 S 0.0 2.7 1:26.77 io.elementary.a
2864931 joom 26 6 12.3g 793856 364176 S 0.0 2.4 56:05.35 firefox-bin
2865092 joom 20 0 3514980 731688 123748 S 0.0 2.2 128:18.97 Isolated Web Co
126745 joom 14 -6 3378888 621280 122060 S 0.0 1.9 5:08.36 Isolated Web Co
2786712 joom 20 0 1134.3g 618736 133332 S 0.0 1.9 46:42.58 brave
358195 joom 26 6 2980692 518680 136332 S 0.0 1.6 0:41.47 Isolated Web Co
2785171 joom 20 0 32.7g 457380 216660 S 0.0 1.4 15:59.03 brave
2788027 joom 26 6 1132.0g 441124 108560 S 0.0 1.3 20:46.19 slack
2785207 joom 20 0 33.0g 360592 178252 S 0.0 1.1 17:42.63 brave
317248 joom 26 6 2966420 290340 125288 S 0.0 0.9 0:40.37 Isolated Web Co
2787996 joom 26 6 32.7g 278308 142388 S 0.0 0.9 10:22.98 slack
278564 joom 26 6 2934420 274776 102480 S 0.0 0.8 0:29.06 Isolated Web Co
2865204 joom 20 0 18.8g 229944 90472 S 0.0 0.7 1:19.44 WebExtensions@OP: You can always run Steam in "small mode". This disables a lot of the JavaScript and CSS, and just presents you with a condensed version of your game list. Steam will also likely decimate your CPU when installing/updating games, but it does this to everybody. Just don't leave it running if you don't want it to cause random performance drops while others are using the PC. You could also look for some kind of minimal skin, but you'll need SFP to apply it, and a theme compatible with Steam's new engine.
it might be related to how many games i have, i have like ~1200 and it regularly goes up to 5gb usage, it uses less now that i have community content turned off but it's still nuts, makes me worry about the steam deck since it has half as much ram
I wonder if sorting them into collections would help any. I kinda doubt it, but my line of thinking is that since they can be collapsed, this would help alleviate how much is actually being displayed at one time. You can use Depressurizer to make it easier.
https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer/releases
Ah, makes sense. I reckon that is more for it to process. I suppose you could spend the time to hide games you'd never play. Decluttering is probably the best way to go about it.
I just disable steam on start up on Windows, uses zero resources other than space on the old Nvme drive, the games use far more space.
Now if it was up and running every time Windows boots yeah I dislike it running all the time too, although on a modern PC it's probably miniscule in the impact on performance.
Now if it was up and running every time Windows boots yeah I dislike it running all the time too, although on a modern PC it's probably miniscule in the impact on performance.
they don't have a "modern" pc, they have a celeron from like 2014, iirc
Oh shiz, well that does change things... umm yeah even games from that era probably run poorly lol at that point I would probably stick to retro gaming on it. Still many thousands of games from like 2012 and back that can be played
Sadly I can add nothing for the initial question. I've used Steam about 5 minutes (against my will) for purchasing a few DRM free games not available otherwise and kicked that thing off the PC instantly after the downloads finished.
But this made me facepalm in disbelieve+shock (and I feel an urge to comment):
That just looks bloated beyond believe. There is no need to pull all that data to main memory at once when having a large library. →
This sounds like a sensible solution:
But this made me facepalm in disbelieve+shock (and I feel an urge to comment):
What does this thing even do there?! Loading 1200 entries, even with some data attached for each game, should never go that far in demands! What are they thinking? Is this service active by default while not using Steam? Or even worse: Is it also active while playing a memory hungry game – competing about resources with that service?
That just looks bloated beyond believe. There is no need to pull all that data to main memory at once when having a large library. →
This sounds like a sensible solution:
Disable Steam and only load it on when needed. That should not slow down the PC. Just a little passive data on HDD/SSD
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